Belter en · NOUN
Etymology
From belt + -er.
Meanings
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An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter.
You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around.
1966 February, Larry Niven, “The Warriors”, in If, volume 16, number 2 (#99 overall), page 152:Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot.
2015 December 22, Remembering the Cant (The Expanse), season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait):He also decided that Belters wouldn’t use the term “bullshit,” because there would be no bulls in the Belt. Instead, they would come up with a uniquely Belter curse, “kaka felota,” a term for what happens when your toilet backs up in low gravity and shit floats all over the place. (“Kata felota” literally means “floating shit.”)
2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |